Saw that Once Upon A Studio short and when Anna asks "Do you think all villains will show up?" she's visibly nervous cuz she thinks Hans will be here and Elsa freezes him immediately without Anna knowing and says "not all" I love her so much making sure her sister's evil ex isn't gonna be here to upset her 🥺
i loved seeing anna again in the “once upon a studio” disney 100 short [clip above] !! but can we please talk about this moment i accidentally caught of Elsa’s reaction to Stromboli yelling i’m actually crying
I wonder if Disney learned all the wrong lessons from Frozen.
At the time of its release, all Buzzfeed style publications praised the movie for breaking away from the traditional Disney tropes, finally having a relatable heroine in the figure of the adorkable Anna, having a twist villain, and for not focusing on romantic love.
But judging by the reaction of the fandom, people really loved the more traditional Disney tropes, really identified themselves more with the shy, mature and elegant Elsa than with adorkable Anna, didn't care too much about the twist villain, and really found themselves shipping either Anna x Kristoff or Anna x Hans.
With the the negative reception of Disney's Wish, I wonder if the problem with the movie isn't that it stuck too closely with the Disney formula, but that it didn't stick closely enough.
Judging by all the posts I see about Wish, people really wanted a fairy tale romance, a more threatening villain, a more adorable sidekick, and a more traditional princess-like protagonist.
This made me think.
Maybe Buzzfeed was just wrong, and the general audiences hypocritical. Maybe the tropes we all spent years mocking Disney movies for having, like the fairy tale romances, the daydreaming damsels, the beautiful ball gowns, the campy villains, and the fairy tale aesthetic were the things that kept audiences coming back.
And maybe the success of Frozen was that it managed to use these tropes to tell an original story without leaving their fairy tale roots behind.
i just rewatched frozen for the first time in seven years and this is MY TAKE on the trolls theory and why hans isn’t actually evil! i’ve been a truther of this since the movie came out when i was 7 years old 😭
first of all these romance scenes are INSANE hans genuinely gets on with her in an insane way they seem absolutely perfect for each other (which is the point i know) but when he expresses his concerns about his brothers it’s about them acting like he’s invisible! which he doesn’t know about anna! and the whole “i would never shut you out” is crazyyyy like this man is not playing
he is also doing good things when people aren’t looking! if he was really evil why would he care so much about the people? why would he try to reason with elsa instead of not killing her immediately when he believes elsa’s death will bring back summer?
HE SMILES WHEN ANNA ISNT LOOKING ‼️ why would he be giving her that lovestruck look if he was acting? it wouldn’t make any sense he has nothing to gain— every time he is nice he has NOTHING TO GAIN— MEANING HE IS TRULY NICE ‼️
you could argue “oh those soldiers attack elsa” BUT THEY ARENT UNDER HANS’S COMMAND— its weaselton’s command PLUS hans isn’t there for that part he’s outside fighting marshmallow— he seems genuinely concerned about elsa for the sake of anna, and accuses weasleton of treason against the two (even though, theoretically, weaselton would be the perfect ally if he were hoping to seize control as he hated the princesses)
and now to move onto THE TROLLS
they are depicted as evil as fuck from the beginning and the things they say to elsa traumatise her and are the reason for the bad events of the movie and why elsa and anna are apart (altho that’s also elsas dads fault fuck elsas dad)
the trolls are also known to do mind magic! they erase anna’s memory at the beginning and change memories completely to exclude magic— it’s not far fetched that they’d be able to change hans’s memories and motives
AND hans’s thematic shift comes immediately after THIS SONG where the trolls learn that kristoff could potentially marry anna if it wasn’t for hans, so they do exactly what they sing about and “get the fiancé out of the way”
BUT WHERE WOULD THIS FIT IN NARRATIVELY? i hear you ask
WELL
kristoff and anna are larking about for a while on that mountain, only rushing back to the village after the song. hans and the guards are making their own way down the mountain, it’s possible that immediately after the song, the trolls find hans and manage to magic his mind into evil and send him back with a STRONG motive to return and take over, him making it back at the perfect time to meet with anna just as the magic is seeping in and he’s switched to evil hans HENCE THE TWIST
TLDR: hans is genuinely awestruck of anna who is lovely, they share one of my fav disney songs ever, hans does good things when people aren’t looking and defends elsa + anna BUT THEN SUDDENLY THE TROLLS FIND OUT ABT HIM AS HER FIANCÉ AND HES SUDDENLY EVIL SO KRISTOFF CAN SWOOP IN???? there is FOUL PLAY involved
thank you for listening <3 hated how this wasn’t the plot of frozen 2 we were all robbed out of hans’s redemption and the mass murder of the trolls
🎥Disney 100 Month, Week 1: Favorite Movie (part 2)🎥
❄️”Frozen” is so special to me. I kin Elsa more than any other character, although at the time of the first film’s release I felt that I kinned Anna more. So I’ve sort of grown with the characters. I never get tired of listening to the songs, and the beautiful bond between these sisters is one I feel with my best friend.❄️
☃️I have so much merchandise from this film it’s honestly ridiculous.😂 I find it all over the house and I’m like, “Oh yeah I forgot about that…”☃️
The March edition of the Swedish Frozen magazine is here. A few treasures inside
Both sisters appearing for once (though not together). Plus a rare appearance from Nøkk!
Bruni being adorable 🥹
Some new Anna and Elsa art!
And... this 😂
It also came with this free notebook and pencil. Now I finally have a place where I can jot down all my fanfic ideas! Oh, and I discovered where all the world's micro plastic pollution comes from 😐🚮
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